Chair.



A. WANNER, JR.

CHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.25,19I6.

Patented Jan. 28, 1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jan; 23, 1917.

Application filed J'anuary 25, 1916. Serial N 0. 74,123.

To all whom it may concern: v Be it known that I, ALBnRT-WVANNER, J r.,a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the countyof New York and State of New York, have invented cer tain new and usefulImprovements in Chairs, of which the following is aspecification. I

The object of this invention isto'provide for chairs, for instance ofthe bent-wood class, a bracing means for the legs which shall afford amore substantial and a I stronger support thereto than the braces of thering, bow or the like bent structures now used, and which at the sametime will reduce appreciably the cost of manufacture and improve theappearance of'the chair.

To this end my invention consists in certain novel combinations andarrangements of parts hereinafter set forth and finally embodied in theclauses of the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of chair ofthe bentwood class provided with my improved bracing means; Fig. 2 is avertical front to rear sectional view of the chair, the caning formingthe seat being asyet unattached;

Fig.. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken below the seat supportingframe and said bracing means and looklng upwardly toward the same; and,Fig. 41 illustrates a detail. (Z designates the front legs and b theback legs, the latter being the extremities of a bent-wood structurewhich, as usual in this type of chairs, forms at c the main part of theback of the chair.

The structure which supports the seat includes a bent-wood seatsupporting frame (Z circular in form and in the present instance beingcontinuous, and which also includes the member e.

The front legs a have dowels f on their upper ends entered in the usualmanner into suitable sockets in the frame (Z.

The structure including the back legs 5 and back 0 is secured againstthe outer periphery of the frame (Z by the usual lag screws 9 drivenfrom the. inside of the frame through the same into said back andback-leg structure. The inside surfaces of the legs a where they adjointhe frame (Z are preferably flush with the inside surfaces of said frame(Fig. 4) the inside surfaces of the legs Z) where they adjoin the frameare of course outwardly offset with relation to the inside surface ofthe frame (Z, since these surfaces bear against the outer surface ofsaid frame. I

The member 6 consists of an elongated plate, preferably of wood, bent tosuitable shape, that is to say, in the preferred form having its outercircumference conforming in the main to the inner circumference of theframe (Z, its two endsprojecting off more or less in the same direction.The said ends have recesses '6, cut in their top edges. The thus-formedmember 6 is assembled with the frame (Z and legs a and b by introducingit, with its ends projecting rearwardlyand between the back legs,upwardly into the frame (Z until its top edge is paral lel, orsubstantially so, with the top surface of the frame (Z, and its endsabutting against the under side of the frame (Z. 'Thereupon it issecured in place preferably as follows: Two screws h are driven throughthe member 6 into each leg and a single screw 2' driven through saidmember intothe frame (Z, the latter screws alternating with the screwsit. This construction, as will be obvious, affords a very substantialand rigid connection between the several legs and the seat supportingstructure, each leg being secured directly to said structure in such amanner that any movement that might affect any. particular leg is notimparted to the other legs, as in the case of bent-wood chairs havingring braces and the like for the legs. Moreover, the bracing means 6 isin itself more rigid than braces heretofore used, because it is a curvedplate and in the preferred form conforms to the inside shape of and issecured flat against the frame (Z. It will be further noted that anystrains which would be imposed on the back legs by the weight of theoccupant tilting back in the chair are resisted by the rearwardlyprojecting ends of the member 6, which are secured against laterallyfacing surfaces of the back-legs. The frame (Z has always heretoforerequired to have a certain amount of vertical thickness to afiord astrong dowel joint between the same and each front leg; in myconstruction the thickness of the frame (Z may be considerably reduced,if the desired chair design requires it, because the said joint is soconsiderably reinforced by the member 6.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a seating appliance, an openseatsupporting frame and an upright plate-like member secured againstthe inside face of and depending from the frame, in combination withlegs secured to the frame and each having an inwardly facing surfacethereof bearing against and secured to the outer face of said member.

2. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting frame and an uprightplate-like member bent in plan and secured against the inside face ofand depending from the frame, in combination with legs secured to theframe and each having an inwardly facing surface thereof bearing againstand secured to the outer face of said member.

3. In a seating appliance, a substantially circular seat-supportingframe, an upright plate-like member curved in plan to the curvature of,and secured against the inside face of and depending from, the frame, incombination with legs secured to the frame and each having an inwardlyfacing surface thereof bearing against and secured to the outer face ofsaid member.

4. In a seating appliance, an open seat supporting frame and a leghaving an inwardly facing surface thereof outwardly offset withreference to the inside surface of said frame, in combination with anupright plate-like member secured at a point removed from the leg to theinside face of said frame and having its upper edge recessed adjacentthe leg and its thus-recessed portion extending under the frame andsecured to said surface of the leg.

5. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting frame, a pair of frontlegs de pending therefrom, back-legs depending from the frame and havinginwardly facing surfaces thereof outwardly offset with reference to theinside face of said frame, in combination with an upright plate-likemember bent in plan and secured to the inside face of and depending fromthe frame and also secured to the inside faces of the front legs andhaving its upper edge at each end thereof recessed and the thus-recessedends extending under the frame and secured to the back legs.

6. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting structure having anupright plate-like portion depending therefrom at its inner side, incombination with legs secured to said structure and each having aninwardly facing surface thereof bearing against and secured to the outerface of said portion, said portion being bent in plan between the legs.

7. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting frame and a pair oflegs secured thereto, in combination with a bent bracing member for thelegs secured to said frame and having its ends secured respectively tosaid legs and arranged close to said frame.

8. In a seating appliance, an open seatsupporting frame and a pair oflegs secured thereto, in combination with a bracing member substantiallyconforming in shape with and secured to the inside surface of said frameand having its ends projecting in substantially the same direction andrespec tively secured to said legs.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature;

ALBERT WANNER, J R.

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